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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 59% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 59% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 18 August 2054 at 09:22.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon in ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1862"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1862" and ∠1899".
Sturgeon Moon before 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2054 after 22 days on 17 September 2054 at 01:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 26 August 2054 at 08:56
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 2 September 2054 at 01:18
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 September 2054 at 21:46
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 17 September 2054 at 01:41
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 675 / 1628
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 675 of Meeus index or 1628 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
Length of current 675 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than next lunation 676 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 55 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠352.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠352.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠7.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 18 August 2054 at 10:18 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 1 September 2054 at 14:49 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 385 048 km
Moon is 385 048 km (239 258 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 587 km (222 194 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after its descending node on 18 August 2054 at 14:57 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 1 September 2054 at 07:18 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
20 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 14 August 2054 at 09:17 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.120°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.122° in the next northern standstill on 28 August 2054 at 21:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 2 September 2054 at 01:18 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.